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Paper, 'Use of lime-water to keep water, fish fresh' by Stephen Hales

Reference number: L&P/2/545

Date: 1754

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of some trials to keep water and fish sweet, with lime-water'

Read 19 December 1754

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L&P/2/545
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1754
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Ink on paper
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10 pages
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Manuscript

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Stephen Hales

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Stephen Hales, Paper, 'Use of lime-water to keep water, fish fresh' by Stephen Hales, 1754, L&P/2/545, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_545/paper-use-of-lime-water-to-keep-water-fish-fresh-by-stephen-hales, accessed on 21 April 2025

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